A double CD compilation of favourites such as Scotland the Brave, The Flower of Scotland, The Skye Boat Song, Bonnie Dundee, The Glendaruel Highlanders and many others—28 pieces altogether—played by The Queen’s Royal Pipers, The Clan Sutherland Pipe Band, The Grampian Police Pipe Band, The DAN AIR Pipe Band, The Pride of Murray Pipe Band, The Beeston Pipe Band, and the Waltham Forest Pipe Band.

This is a brilliant compilation of the proudest and best Pipes and Drums tunes. The groups represented are the Queen’s Royal Pipers, the Dan Air Scottish Pipe Band, Kinross and District Pipe Band, Waltham Forest Pipe Band, Beeston Pipe Band, Grampian Police Pipe Band, Clan Sutherland Pipe Band, Stonehaven Pipe Band, Pride of Murray Pipe Band and the world famous 1st Battalion Scots Guards. A celebration of fine music, from all these prize-winning pipe bands.

A proud album of Scottish music, spanning the whole spectrum from traditional folk and ballads, sung in Gaelic, to jigs and reels, with fiddles, guitars, accordions, etc. to rousing pipe band pieces. Information about each of the pieces in the booklet.

A fabulous collection of over 70 minutes of combined music from Scotland's celebtrated Military Tattoo, featuring starring bands of the last twenty years. Marches, folk music, massed band standards and Scottish favourites.

The album is a tribute to all the soldiers from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales, and also their Commonwealth brothers in arms from all corners of the globe, who fought and suffered together in the Great War and, in particular, all those who died.

The album has a more Scottish perspective than any of its predecessors but when one considers that Scotland suffered the most soldiers killed, per head of population, of any nation that fought in the conflict, such an album was greatly overdue. It is also doubtful if the songs, poems and music of WW1 have ever before been covered in such depth.

This project was first suggested to Ian Green of Greentrax Recordings in 2004 by Des Brogan, Managing Director of Mercat Tours International, who specialise in tours of both WW1 and WW2 cemeteries and battlefields. Jim Paris, who also contributed, is a Mercat Tours Battlefield Guide. Ian, who had read many books on both WW1 and WW2, was interested but regrettably the lack of financial resources at that time caused it to be placed on the ‘back-burner’. In 2007, however, Des Brogan invited Ian and his wife June on one of Mercat’s WW1 coach tours of France and Belgium. June was also finally able to fulfil a life-long desire to visit the graveyard of her Grandfather McLennan, in one of the many beautifully maintained War Cemeteries.

TRACK LISTING: CD1:
1. Your King and Country Need You (Spoken Word - Iain Anderson)
2. Your King and Country Need You (Song - The Scottish Pals Singers)
3. Regimental Tunes (The Army School of Piping and Highland Drumming)
4. The Last Mile Home
5. It's a Long Way To Tipperary
6. Mademoiselle From Amenities
7. Fred Akron's Army
8. We're Here
9. Living in a Trench
10. Raining
11. Minor Worries
12. If The Sergeant Steals Your Rum
13. Oh! It's a Lovely War
14. Hush! Here Comes The Whizz-bang
15. Bombed Last Night
16. Gassed Last Night
17. Fritz Boy
18. Forward Joe Soap's Army
19. Pack Up Your Troubles
20. Whiter Than Whitewash
21. Far, Far From Wipers I Long To Be
22. Take Me Back to Dear Old Blight
23. I'll Make a Man of You
24. I Wore a Tunic
25. Goodbye
26. When this Bloody War is Over
27. I Don't Want to be a Soldier
28. I Want to go Home
29. The Old Battalion
30. The Bells of Hell
31. It's a Long Way to Tipperary
32. Keep The Home Fires Burning
33. Sister Suzie Sewing Shirts For Soldiers
34. The Only Girl in The World
35. Roses of Peccary (All The Scottish Pals Singers)
36. Keep Right on to The End of The Road (Harry Lauder)
37. The Flowers of The Forest (Corporal Neil McNaughton)
38. The Last Post (John Samson).

The groups on this recording are "The Beeston Pipe Band, Nottingham", "The Waltham Forest Pipe Band", " the "Pride of Murray Pipe Band", and the "Dan Air Scottish Pipe Band". All these groups are renowned, with long time experience. They performed in several competitions and represent real Scottish tradition.

Scottish bagpipes in many settings. Solo pipes, pipe bands, pipe and regimental bands, all here in all their glory, with absolute must-have tunes such as Amazing Grace, Dark Island, A Man's A Man,... Contemporary settings and traditional. Pure magic indeed.